Senior Data Scientist (GenAI) ---100% REMOTE

Senior Data Scientist (GenAI) # 100% REMOTE

Senior Data Scientist, you will collaborate with the Data Science and Machine Learning team and will create data science, machine learning, and AI solutions to better address the needs of our constituents (students, alumni, faculty, researchers, staff, and community at large).

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum of nine years post-secondary education or relevant work experience
• Advanced degree in mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, statistics, or an equivalent technical discipline desired
• Minimum of three years experience in developing machine learning models with a track record of creating meaningful business impact and working with multiple stakeholders.
• Minimum of five years experience with Python.
• Minimum of three years' experience building production NLP and deep learning models using PyTorch/Tensorflow, along with using large language model architectures (BERT, GPT-3 etc.)
• Experience building advanced workflows such as retrieval augmented generation, model chaining, dynamic prompting, PEFT/SFT, etc. using Langchain and similar tools
• Experience establishing model guardrails and developing bias detection and mitigation techniques for AI applications
• Proficiency with various prompting techniques, with a clear understanding of tradeoffs between prompting and finetuning
• Experience with finetuning embedding models and tuning vector databases to improve performance of semantic search and retrieval systems
• Deep understanding of underlying fundamentals such as Transformers, Self-Attention mechanisms that form the theoretical foundation of LLMs
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and tools (AWS)